Everyday Wellness

UMMC Everyday Wellness, a program for UMMC employees, promotes awareness and education, provides motivation for positive behavior changes, and influences campus practices and policy to support a healthy environment.

Target areas

• Physical Well-being  Physical Well-being is the act of caring for your body to stay healthy now and in the future.  

• Psychological Well-being  Psychological Well-being means appreciating the feelings of others, managing your emotions in a constructive way, and feeling positive and enthusiastic about your life. 

• Social Well-being  Social Well-being means maintaining healthy relationships, enjoying being with others, developing friendships and intimate relations, caring about others, and letting others care about you.

• Professional Well-being  Professional Well-being is achieved by preparing for and participating in work that provides personal satisfaction and life enrichment that is consistent with your values, goals, and lifestyle. 

• Financial Well-being  Financial Well-being means managing your resources to live within your means, making informed financial decisions and investments, setting realistic goals, and preparing for short-term and long-term needs or emergencies.

• Spiritual Well-being  Spiritual Well-being consists of finding purpose, value, and meaning in your life with or without organized religion and participating in activities that are consistent with your beliefs and values.

• Environmental Well-being Environmental Well-being is achieved by understanding how your social, natural, and built environments affect your health and well-being.

Within each of these target areas are methods/approaches that will be utilized to meet the goals of each area, including:

• Information
• Motivation
• Environment
• Assessment